Newspaper Page Text
)
Why ““Curses’’ May
Really Bring Evil
" Psychological science explains why a long series
of tragedies has actually followed a mother's
curse upon Austria’s Emperor. Read it In
Next Sunday’s American
HUNT NELMS CLEW AMONG INNES RELATIVES
Bia Leaague Ball Players Are Ordered to Strike
Mme. Caillaux Tells Life Story
UNWRITTEN
LAW PLEA
OF WOMAN
Wife of Former French Premier
| Breaks Down in Court on
Trial for Life.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, July 20.—Just after
the calling of the twelve
jurymen, who were to try her
for her life for killing Gaston Cal
mette, the editor, Mme. Genevieve
Calllaux, wife of the former Premlier
of France, broke down, after appear
ing in court with a jaunty alr.
It required but little time to select
the jury. The indictment had heen
handed up to Judge Albanel for his
perusal when suddenly the prisoner
leaned forward, her head resting up
on her arms, and broke into a fit of
passionate sobbing. In the silence
of the courtroom she could be heard
throughout the chamber.
Mme. Caillaux pleaded the “un
written law” In behalf of herself, de
claring that she had been actuated in
shooting Calmette because she feared
that he was about to publish some
of her private correspondence with
a view to compromising her honor.
Feared Misconstruction.
“I feareu Calmette was golng to
publish love letters written tc me by
my husband,” declared the prisoner.
“I was moved to defend my name
and the honor of my husband. We had
not been guilty of any moral crime,
but I feared that misconstruction
might have been put upon the let
ters.”
Mme. Caillaux reviewed her life
from the time of her first marriage
with Mr. Claretie down to the present.
She had been divorced from M. Cla
retie, who was a journalist.
“My married life with M. Caillaux
has been perfectly happy, except for
the attacks made upenm my husband
by political oppenents,” said she.
“Within 95 days 138 articles attack
ing my husband appeared in Le Fi
garo.
“Is it any wonder that 1 was dis
tracted?” cried the prisoner, throwing
outward her arms. The prisoner then
read a number of extracts from three
articles which she declared were not
directeJ against her husband'’s politi
cal policy, but against his good name
and reputation.
As to the manner in which Cal
mette secured copies of her letters,
Mme. Caillaux sald:
During a recess at this period more
than a score of lawyers who were in
terviewed expressed the opinion that
Mme. Caillaux would be acquitted.
When court reconvened at 2:30
o'ciock, Mme, Caillaux, who had eal-
en a light luncheon in the mean
time, resumed her narrative.
“On the morning of March 16, 1
discussed with my husband at break
fast the attacks which M. Calmette
was making in Le Figaro,” she sald.
«1 said at that time that I intended
to seek revenge.”
“Revolver Wen tOff Iteelf.”
When the prisoner came to her
story of the actual killing, her body
shook with convulsive sobs.
“As far as I can ramemb’er, the
revolver went off itself,” sald she in
her description of the shooting.
Before she could proceed further,
several friends of the Calmette fam
ily broke into loud derisive laughter,
which seemed totally out of place
under the circumstances.
Mme. Calllaux sald she did not go
to the office of Le Figaro to kill Cal
mette, but to teach him a lesson.
Following the reading of her state
ment, Mme. Calllaux was questioned.
“What punitive action did you de
cide upon?”
“I decided to go to M. Calmette
and ask him not to publish any more
of my letters.”
“Had your husband made threats
. Continued an Page 13, Column 1.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
I VOL. XII. NO. 303
City Reservoirs Too
.
Small, Says Smith;
AsksNewF'ilterßeds
That the capacity of the filtering beds
at the city settling basins are being ex
ceeded 25 to 756 per cent every day was
the announcement made Monday by
General Manager W. Z. Smjth, of the
City Waterworks, who is urging that
the city expend at least $200,000 on ad
ditional filter beds.
\General Manager Smith estimates that
thé city water plant can now pump 40,-
000,000 to 650,000,000 gallons of water
every twenty-four hours, while the ca
pacity of the settling basins and filter
ation equipment is rated‘ at 20,000,000
gallons every twenty-four hours. That
this situation might result serfously at
some time is feared by Mr. Smith.
The growth of the city and the con
sequent increasing demand on the water
system makes it imperative, Mr. Smith
'says, that the city should increase the
capacity of the settling and filtration
’depanmema to a parity with the pump
’ ing capacity of the plant.
Rate Decision Not to
Grant Raises Except
WASHINGTON, July 20.—The pre
vailing opinion at the Interstate Com
merce Commission headquarters to-day
upheld the theory that the decision in
the advance rate case would be against
the general increase of 5 per cent in
{reight rates asked for by the Eastern
railroads, but that Increease of various
degrees would be granted on certain
classes of freight.
The general bellef is that the com
mission will uphold the contention of
Louis R. Brandeis, that the rallroads
should cease to render free to the large
shippers services such as the *“spot
ting"” of cars, and that thereby the
roads would be able to collect some. $5,-
000,000 a year which is now saved by the
larger shippers throughout the country.
While the renewal of these services
charges will to some extent reduce the
husiness of the big patrons of the roads,
the small shippers are expected to make
up the loss in total traffic.
Members of the commission to-day
were putting the finishing touches on the
decision. It was stated unofficially that
&4 day's notice probably would be given
when the decision would be ready, The
decision is carefully guarded.
. .
Ice Makes Ship Quit
Hunt for Explorers
SEATTLE, WASH., July -20.—Dis
patches received here to-day from
Nome, Alaska, said that the powerful
steam whaler Kit' had returned there
after a fourteen-dgy battle with the ice
in an effort to reach the men of the
Stefansson exploring expedition, ma
rooned on Wrangell Island.
The revenue cutter Bear, with Captain
Robert Bartlett, master of the wreckems
Karluk, aboard, which will attempt to
reach Wrangell Island, has delayed sail
ing until more favorable weather.
Body of Drowned
‘ .
Man Is Recovered
DECATUR, ALA., July 20.—The body
of Slaughter Banks, who was drowned
in the Tennessee River here Saturday
night, was found to-day a short dis
tance beiow the river bridge. :
Banks was walking the bridge from
the lake to Decatur when he fell and
was drowned. He was a member of one
of the oldest and best known families
of Decatur.
‘T'm Done With Public’
.
—J. Pierpont Morgan
NEW YORK, July 20.—*“Oh, don't
talk to me about appealing to the
public—l'm done.” The speaker.was
J. Plerpont Morgan. The subject
was the New Haven Rallroad and
the report issued by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
~ “The public reads the headlines
iand that's all,” he gaid.
| .
Miner Loses Thumb
. .
In Mountain Dispute
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., July 20.—
During a dispute as to whether Mount
' Whitney, the highest peak in the United
States, was in Inyo or Tulare County,
Hank Clew, a miner, had his thumb
shot off. Clew then consulted an atlas
land found the peak was on the boun
deevlose o
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results
KRAFT GAok
(AUSES NEW
WARFARE
President Fultz, of Players’ Fra
ternity, Declares National Com
mission Must Right Injustice.
NEW YORK, July 20.—A strike f
baseball players under contract to
clubs in the American and National
Leagues has been ordered by Daxld
L. Fultz, President of the Players’
Fraternity, who sent an ultimatum to
the National Commission to-day. v
Mr. Fultz also mailed orders for a
walk-out of players in both major
leagues on Wednesday morning, pro
vided the commission by that time
has not rescinded its ruiing in tho
case of Player Kr.ft, who, according
to Fultz, must draw a salary from
the Newark club in the International
League instead of the Nashville club
in the Southern League, which owns
him, .« . 3 Y T
When seen to-day, Fultz sala:
“I hope there won't be any occasion
for a strike.” ¥
Ban Johnson Defiant.
Ban Johnson, president of the
American League, telegraqhed the
presidents of the American League to
meet in this city to-morrow to dis
cuss the Kraft case, .
Mr. Johnson déclared that if the
players obeyed the strike order every
baseball park in the circuit would
be closed and all salaries would be
stopped. In addition, each player
who goes on strike, says Johnson,
wiil be heavily fined.
In discussing the cause of the
trouble, Johnson safd:
“Kraft belongs to the Nashville
Club, according to the provisions of
the national agreement, which have
never been changed. When the
Brooklyn club drafted him from New
Orleans, it turned out that Nash
ville owned him. Consequently when
the Brooklyn club decided not to
keep Kraft, President Ebbets unlaw
fully sent him to Newark,
“Nashville's Claim Just.”
“The Nashville club, having a prior
right to the player's services, filed
a just claim for him and there is no
way out of the present tangle unless
a major league club buys Kraft from
the Nashville team. I unstand that
Frank Farrell, of the New York Yan
kees, is willing to buy Kraft, but I
hope he does mnot do so until after
Wegnesday; so that we will get a
chance to call the bluff of the Play
ers’ Fraternity.”
According to Fultz, the ruling of
the National Commission by which
Kraft had to play with one club and
depend upon another for his salary
was unjust,
Gevernor Tener, of Pennsylvania,
is expected to arrive here from Har
risburg Tuesday morning.
Army Worm Invades
. .
7 Carolina Counties
RALEIGH, ‘N. C., July 20.—Franklin
H. Sherman, State Entomologist, said
to-day that the genuine atimy woim had
invaded seven North Carolina counties.
Vigorous efforts are being made to de
stroy the pests: This is the first time
in fourteen .vears that the army worm
has come as far east as Raleigh,
The counties invaded are Pitt, Wake,
Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson and
Hertford.
'
State Banks in N, C.
ST
Show $6,000,000 Gain
RALEIGH, N. C.,, July 20.—North
Carolina State banks, according to a
statement issued by the Corporation
Commission to-day, gained more than
$6,000,000 in resources during the past
year.
The condition of State banks as of
June 30 shows resources amounting to
1,“3.23fi.59§425, eSS :
ATLANTA., GA., MONDAY, JULY 20 1914
President Expects
Anti-Trust Bill to
Pass, Despite Foes
WASHINGTON, July 20.—The efforts
of a number of Senators to filibuster
against the Administration anti-trust
program has not escaped the eye of
President Wilson. He told his callers
to-day that he expected the measures to
be passed in reasonable time. The rail
road securities’ bill is not yet ready
for report from the Committee on In
terstate Commerce, and, while the fili
buster may continue until this measure
is In the Senate, the President is confi
dent that a way ,will be found to cir
cumyent the obsgtructionists.
The Kansag City business men who
called on President Wilson last week
filed several objections to the Clayton
bill as it passed the House, but it is
expected that the measure as reported
to the Sepate will be satisfactory to
them.
No Criminal Suits b
: J
U.S.inNewHavenCase
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Attorney
General Mcßeynolds to-day received
a delegation of New Haven directors,
who came from New York to make a
final attempt to adjust the relations
between the New Haven and the Bos
ton and Maine properties.
It was learned after the conferenve,
which lasted an hour, that Attorney
General Mcßeynolds has decided that
no- eriminal’ prosecution —pewkd-e
‘broughr against directors of the road.
1t was reported also that in the evant
he should file a suit for dissolution
of the New Haven from the Boston
and Maine it probably will not he
pressed in the éourts until the Massa
chusetts Legislature shall have been
given another chance to untangle che
affairg of‘the road. 2
.
Wilson for Adamson
Conservation Bi
0 Bill
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Although
President Wilson is aware that the Ad
ministration’s conservation is opposed
by Gifford Pinchot and other members
of the National Comservation Associg
tion, he is strongly in favor of the
Adamson bill, and believes that it pro
tects the interests of the national Gov
ernment so far as water power rights
are concerned, ’
The President said that the Adamson
bill protects every fundamental Feder
al right over navigable streams con
verted t 6 water power purposes.
King Peacemaker in
Home Rule Squabble
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 20.—King George has
edopted the role of peacemaker in the
Irish crisis'and will take part in a con
ference at Buckingham Palace to-mor
row at which all political factions will
be represented.
At a special meeting of the Cabinet,
Premier Asquith to-day outlined (fhe
draft of a plank which will be consid
ered in the Buckingham Palace confer
ence.
G. Bernard Shaw
lioht!
Usually Is Right!
LONDON, July 20.—The London
County Council has turned down 23
suggestions for the design of its new
coat of arms. The majority of the
Councilors demand an English slogan.
Among those received is a cynical
one from Bernard Shaw. who 'quotes
a lne from the Poat Shellev, “Hell
is a city much llke London.”
; !
Wilson Back at Work
. !
. .
Cured of Indigestion
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Greatly re
freshed by his four days’ rest and re
covered from his attack of indigestion,
President Wilson returned to hf desk
in the Executive offices to-day, prepared
to receive a larger number of visitors
than on any day for several weeks.
e SR R
| THE WEATHER. |
% Forecast for Atlanta agd '
| Georgia—Fair Monday night
" and Tuesday. “ {
PROMOTION
FOR SLAYER
OF BENTON
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
MEXICO CITY, July 20.—President
i
™ n & i
’ 2
- »
|, sy
}_‘ ¥ Y '
: )
: 7 ) 3
i . -
§ s ; o
3 ¥ 3
| R B,
332 A “
' i o 1 &
T Snir
§ . Y
£ ‘ S P e
i / A
i o ot b
S e B A kg
E 2 it ¥
TR
t £ %
orE'y % ? -
roeoro Ir\___/
TATE WAL RONN L,
NEWws JORTICE vy
Carbajal and his advisors believe that
peace in Mexico will soo.}\ be achiev
ed as far as negotiations with Gen
eral Carranza are concerned, but
great uncertainty prevalls over the
attitude of other revolutionary lead
ers, particularly General Villa.
Villa's promotion of Colonel Fierro,
the man found guilty of Killing Wil
liam S. Benton, the E}ngllsh ranch
man, is expected to embarrass the
regotiations of Carranza with Eng
land, full reparation for Benton's
death and punishment of his slayer
having been promised.
Even if Carranza {s established in
Mexico City as provisional president,
Villa is expected to withhold his In
dorsement of .the Government until
assured that the peons will be given
the lands of the, millionaires who
galned their wealth by holding the
lower classes in virtual slavery for
many dccades “The peons revolt”
{s the title that Villa has given to
his rebellion, and he has made it
clear that he will resist any Qov
ernment that refuses to provide for
land distribution.
If he decides that Carranza has
played into the hands of the rich
classes by accepting the Government,
lon any terms that wiil prevent the
peons getting the industrial freedom
which Villa has fought to attain for
them, it is probable that he will pro
clalm an independent fepublic In
Northern Mexico.
Huerta, Defiant, Waits
For Whole Party to Sail.
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georglan,
| PUERTO MEXICO, MEXICO, July
20,—Laconically smoking -clgarette
Copyright, 1900,
By The Gaorgian Co.
'VILLA REAL FRIEND OF
. HEARST WAR WRITER
AR 4"' b
RN NG G S B
Ll s e’
LT &
T e 5
A Wi A p)f M
WP y ! g ‘ il
Wt R R it
3Rt L A
et N
g \ i !i
I B i
b R 8 it
/ o b & it
iy W 2 L 3 i
s % . o oy i
P 7. i
|£P R f
ios& W 5 i
| }/ T it
ibS i R i
i ( X ", B .g- 2 ’if
e LT i
v it
§ "y «»’f’ G 3 N
x s Lk £ 2
Bk 2 & e { i A
: : ‘t‘ 2 y{g‘« 6y t ’-,r-: ')-. %
% R o B '2&;‘('}_.;{ S :
; & g A ¢ }’% e ]
v i e
R el s (&e fi}?}}” %
G v”;«v ;
e S o !
:o ; &
. e S ) SN % R
g<> ey ‘%f S o’y B 3
e SRR S L Z%: %*3 b i ¥ R < 3 ¥ %
R R N gSI o Tke
3 > b % % W sl TR o b AT . By e
e ‘3:5':".;):5‘4;%:3.3:5'\"-fi'n::" R R AD B .":e:,v PR
A s e T RS S A e
e ~ ST e S R R
i e ot \;‘;‘{""‘-:“‘Ev %C/
e el e T e
Sy VIR S Aot .
o R TR e S e S
o P v ST SR S N T ;
L Ww%%‘ R R T
Fw [ERIBWTT W X A g W oot
eo~ D N o w@i B R o
A%ha:» B o A% K f,&f 7 ”'fi%@,m’ &8
LN o T s
& W ] o BRO 0o g R e I
Wy, e T R Sl ey
Be. s Sy AR S R
e 25 SR G 5 I Ret
GOOT R ok BY
AR RANGGER Snd] REABN &, Bl
Copy of autographed photograph presented by General Fran
cisco Villa, the Mexican war leader, to John W. Roberts (below),
Hearst International News Serviee correspondent in Northern
Mexico, who has scored many notable ‘‘beats’ for the newspapers
gerved by the Hearst service.
’a!ter cigarette and frequently sip
ping from the cognac bottle that has
been his constant companion ever
since he fled from the capital, Gen
eral Huerta to-day defied his foes
and declared his intention of staying
on Mexican soil until all his party
can sail and be assured of safety on
the sea.
Though agents of the rebels are re
ported to have followed Huerta here
with the intention of assassinating
him and a force of revolutionists is
said to be approaching the town from
the north, the former dictator showed
no trace of any break in the iron
nerve that has characterized his every
move since he rose to power.
1t ‘was against Huerta's protest
that a shift was made in the loca
tion of the private car in which he
came from the capital and which he
has made his headquarters since ar
riving here. General Rincon, com
mander of the local garrison, had it
moved 200 yards and now it is pro
tested from attack by the guns of the
gunboat Bravo, lying just off the
shore. Rincon also stationed troops
to guard all approaches to the city.
This careful military guard will be
maintained until the arrival of the
steamer Mexico, on which Senora
Huerta and all members of the Huer
to party, with the exception of the
former dictator himself, Blanquet
and officers of the general staff ex
pect to sail for Jamaica. As soon as
the Mexico salls, Huerta and Blan
quet will board the German cruiser
Dresden with their aldes and leave
the country. y
.
Clerk Cut in Back
. .
By Fighting Negress
A. Dibing, clerk in the Morris Jacobs
clothing store, No. 235 Peters street, Is
lylng at his home badly stabbed in the
back as the result of an encounter with
a negro woman, who cut him with 'a
jackknife as she was being ejected from
the store Monday morning. /.
The woman sald she had been”“short
changed’” for the sum of ten cents.
.
Plague of Crickets
Shuts Western Bars
FRESNO, CAL., July 20.—Saloohs in
Newman, Stanislaus County, were closed
for three nights, owing to a pest of
crickets which crawled on the bars and
hopped.into the llqyld. refreshments,
9 CRENTR' Q3R
. .
Hindu Ship, Barred
By Canada, to Leave
~ Port With Cruiser
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 20.—The
Komagata Maru with her Hindu pas
sengers who were refused admittance at
this port by the Canadian immigration
officials on the ground that they were
undesirable citizens and who foreibly
prevented the boat from leaving for the
Orient yesterday, will be escorted out
of the harbor by the Canadian cruiser
Rainbow. The cruiser will cross from
Ksquimalt to-morrow and will convoy
the Komagata beyond the three-mile
Hmit
While the Rainbow is being preparad,
tugs loaded with immigration officials
to-day circled around the Komagata
Maru to prevent any of the Hindus
aboard the vessel from attempting to
come ashore or to prevent any n.tt,lmm
on the part of the sympathizers to hoard
the vessel.
Efforts of the Komagata's crew to get
the ghip under wAy preclpitated
a pitched battle between immigration
inspectors, special police and the Hin
dus, The situation became so serfous
that it was necessary for the ship's of
ficers to send for reinfércements from
shore
Commerce Body Asks
. .
New Rail Regulation
WASHINGTON, July 20—That the
public business of transportation should
be clearly separated from private busl
ness: that railroads should be prohibit
ed from furnishing, directly or indi
rectly, capital or loans to private enter
prises; that rallroads should be prohib
ited from extending the use of their
credit for the benefit of private individ
uals or companies, and {hat the com
modity clause of the interstate com
merce act should be enforced and ex
tended to all traffic, were the recom
mendations to-day made in a report to
Congress by the Interstate Commerce
Commission on the relations of the New
York Central and other rallroads with
coal and oil properties in Illinols and
other States.
.
Beaten by Friends on
1 '
Birthday; Badly Hurt
CHICAGO, July 20.—Freda Medalie,
while celebrating her thirteenth birth
day, was badly injured when, in ac
cordance with an old custom, she was
given & pommeling ty her friends, but
physiclans - declared® uhe% WOould - EECOVaky
HOME.
THINK PAIR
AR el
NTERAS
TOWN
Mother of Girls Receives Postcard
Believed To Be Written by
Miss Beatrice.
Search for the missing Nelms
sisters Monday centered about
the City of Devine, Texas, about
30 miles from San Antonio, and
among the relatives of the wife of
Vietor E. Innes, whom hoth Innes
and his wife visited in June.
Sergeant A. D. Luck, member of the
Atlanta police force and a relative of
the Nelms family, arrived in San An
tonio Monday and proceeded on to
Devine a few hours later. He is sald
to have apparently reliabe informa
tien that one or both of the sisters
are being held there.
} Other important developments of
the day were the finding of a scalp
in Hay's Lake, near Winnsboro, La.,
thought possibly the scalp of Beatrice
whom KEolise in the death note was
reprseented as saying she had killed;
the receiving by Mrs. J. W. Nelms
of a mysterious postcard that she be
|lieves 1s in the handwriting of
Beatrice and the report to Chief
Beavers from a Westerfi“town that
the missing women had been located
there almost beyond chance of mls
take. o
Aso Seen in Shreveport. ~
Shreveport Monday was. added to
the growing ist of cities where the
Nelms sisters have “possitively been
tdentified.” Plectures of the missing
women were seen there by .several
persons who “recognized” them as ths
likenesses of two strange young
women who had been there a few
days before, Mrs. H. D. Jackson,
wife of a hotel proprietor, was posi«
tive in her assertions that Eloise reg
istered there June 19.
Dispatches from San Antonlo say
that Sergeant Tuck is expected to In
vestigate the visit h\).hfne of Innes
and his wife to Devine and to as
certain if it could have had any
| bearing on the disappearance of Elois
]nnd Beatrice. Mrs Innes’ daughter
by a formre marriage is Mrs. Moore,
wife of a physician of Devine.
Sergeant Luck was preceded to
San Antonio by an Atlanta newspa
per reporter who bears letters from
Chief Beavers, Marshall Nelms and
Mrs. J. W. Nelms, requesting the po
lice of difference cities to assist him
in the search for the missing sis
ters,
Scalp in Lake a Mystery.
Advices from Winnshoro, La., said
that the finding of the scalp {n H:y'sl
near there, could not be explained by
any recent tragedy. The hair was
blonde and the scalp apparently had
been in the water a month. It was
found by negro fishermen who wera
terrified at their discovery. Dyna-|
miting failed to bring up the body.
After dragging Hays Lake for sev-|
eral hours, searchers reported that no
portion of the body from which the
woman's scalp and hair is supposel
to have been pulled could be found.
The halr and scalp had been in the;
water so long and were so thoroughls
covered with mud and grass that the
color could not be determined. Ths
presumption is that the bedy had besn
in the water three weeks or a month,
and that the recent freshets had
washed the body into the vieek that
leads from the lake. This creek will
be thoroughly dragged for the body.
There is na one migsing from that
section of the country, and officlals
are inclinedq to believe the woman
must have fallen from a passing train
into the creek, and the body found;
its way into the lake, as the ..orth
western Railway crosses the creek
two miles above where the hair was
found. i
Chief Beavers received a letter
Monday from a man in a Western
city.who was positive he had located
the. missing Nelms girls. He had
pletures of Eloise and Beatrice, and
#aid that their appearance corre
ded exactly to the photograpis.
::‘i‘i‘;:t Bcz]ea.vers l:voulcl notl;lxo.out, the